Want a sleeper Final Four pick? Some team that can come from outside of the top-four NCAA tournament seeds, one that’s far from the hottest team down the stretch, one that’s being overlooked and even forgotten about within its own mega-super-power conference?

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Georgetown.

Which, on the other hand, could fall flat on its face and wreck your entire bracket, much the way it’s done two of the last three seasons. If that happens, keep my name out of it.

If the Hoyas do win, though, keep this name in it and never let go of it, no matter what anyone else in that uniform does the next two weekends: Chris Wright.

Wright, one of Georgetown’s three senior starters and part of the senior backcourt pair (he’s the distributor, Austin Freeman is the scorer) that has defined this program since their arrival together as freshmen, was the main reason the Hoyas were looking like a solid bet to be a top-four seed when March rolled around.

That was before he landed wrong on his left (non-shooting) hand in the first half of a home game against Cincinnati three weeks ago. Yes, it was just three weeks ago, even though, to Georgetown followers, it feels like three years ago. Mainly since the Hoyas have not won a game since then. Not that game against the Bearcats, in which Wright kept trying to go back in and play, once even after his hand got wrapped and he tried to play, essentially, one-handed.

Not in the next game, Senior Day against arch-rival Syracuse, when a buzz shot through Verizon Center as fans saw Wright walking around in his warmups rather than street clothes. Is he gonna pull a Willis Reed? Will he be introduced with the starters? Will he come out for the opening tip? None of the above. He got his ovation and his hugs from coach John Thompson III, sat down, and watched his teammates get nudged down the stretch when nobody could initiate or ignite the offense the way he always had.

Then the Hoyas got routed in Cincinnati in the season finale, and then again by Connecticut in the Big East tournament. By then, if no one was really sure how important Wright was to Georgetown, even though he wasn’t blowing everybody away with his stats (not that there’s anything wrong with 13.1 points, 5.4 assists and 1.5 steals), there no longer was any doubt.

There was none on the tournament selection committee. “At the end of the day, when you’re playing without a player, you still have to execute, you still have to perform,’’ said committee chair Gene Smith ON Sunday night. Curiously, though, he pointed out that in Wright’s case – as opposed to other players whose teams played long stretches without them – he and the committee didn’t have much time to check Georgetown’s play without him.

The catch: Georgetown didn’t last long without Wright. That explains the No. 6 seed.

Georgetown was 21-6 before Wright got hurt and had won nine out of 10, all in Big East play, the one loss at Connecticut ending an eight-game winning streak. There were wins over St. John’s, Louisville and Marquette at home and, even more important, Villanova and Syracuse on the road.

Wright was at his game-changing, take-charge best in Philadelphia that late-January day, making every big play, cracking 'Nova's press time and time again, keeping the Wildcats at arm's length down the stretch and, in hindsight, sending the teams in opposite directions at the most critical point of their seasons. Without scoring a point, by the way.

A big finish was on the horizon – for Georgetown, still stinging from the unceremonious boot from last year’s tourney by 14th-seeded Ohio in the first round. For Thompson, whose spectacular run to the 2007 Final Four came in his third year of carrying on the family legacy at the school his father put on the map – but who had won one tournament game since then.

And for Wright and Freeman, friends since grade school, rivals at competing area private high schools and the faces of the program and of the celebrated post-Final Four recruiting class. Freeman was the prep all-American and, eventually, the explosive scoring star with the unexpected subplot that emerged late last season, a diabetes diagnosis that he has handled well enough to be a repeat all-conference player as a senior.

But Wright, almost from Day One, has been the floor leader, the quarterback, the engine. No surprise what happened to Georgetown when the engine was removed for three weeks.

Now, with Wright cleared last week to practice again – and play in the Hoyas’ opener Friday night in Chicago – the engine is back in place.

So is his and his team’s last chance to make their time there special, to wash away the nasty taste of the upset by Stephen Curry and Davidson in the second round in their freshman year; of their late-season collapse and relegation to the NIT as sophomores; and of the abrupt exit as juniors, when they were No. 3 seeds, watching Ohio dribble out the clock instead of pushing to break 100 points.

They’re a sixth seed, with 10 losses, in a regional with Purdue, Notre Dame and Kansas, winless for 26 days by the time they take the court again, and winless against a quality opponent for more than a month.

But if you cash in big (errr – impress your friends in your non-monetary bracket contest) by rolling with Georgetown and Chris Wright, just remember where you heard it first.